Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-03-09
AMERICAN FASHIONS.
Some Very Neat Things for MidwiDter and
Early Spring Wear.

Early spring Wear.
English raglans of fine gray check
fit like listers and are very popular;
| they have three tight-titting, graduated
capes and beneath them the new sling
sleeves. All the jackets and listers
this winter have capes and hoods, and
frequently both. Astrakhan is used
for both jackets and wraps, though in
the former garments it is not becoming
to all figures. A short wrap of this
material is very handsome when
trimmed with long fur
Copies of French dresses are combin-
ations of wool and fur, all that shows
of the lower skirt being of some fur
that contrasts prettily with the camels
hair overdress. A blue toilet has a
deep border of long-maned black Rus
sian lambskin around the skirt of blue
wool, striped along with black bands
that gradually become narrower at the
top. The drapery is plain blue camel's
hair.
A gray and blue checked camers
hair has plain grayish-blue velvet
V-shaped vest and is combined with
grazing blue wool. A pretty finish to
the neck and sleeves is loops of white
satin ribbon only a fourth of an inch
wide set on in three rows. The checked
cameFs hair is sometimes cut bias for
both front and back of the basque.
Scarlet or English pink is in great
favor for the cashmere dresses of girls
from three years old upward These
are made with hemmed and tucked full
skirts and plain round waist that has
a square yoke outlined with black vel
vet ribbon, and there is also wide
velvet belt with sash ends. The scarlet
fannels with white polka dots are
made with round plated waist and
white wool gimp. The soft white wool
is laid in tucks, feather stitched with
red, the sleeves are full and the turned
back cuffs and collars are also feather
stitched with red
Green and black are popular COM
binations. English dresses of moss
green woods are tri mined with Jet
passementerie. One of these has a
long overskirt caught up by large
square side pockets on which jet
points are set, falling on lower skirt
bordered with pointed jet gimp. The
basque has vest outlined with jet. A
black silk beaver round hat worn with
this gown has green velvet loops in
front; boa and muff of black marten
90 with it and small face vail of
green Russian tulle.
Plaids are go ID deal worn. They
are large and must be bias; straight
plaids are things of the past They are
used as walking dresses in doubtful
weather, and are frequently combined
with plain materials. Occasionally
these plaid costumes are ornamented
with military embellishments of the
nature of frogs, brandenbourgs or four
RACERS, but they are not seen on the
best and most correct ones.
Red continues to be the favorite color
for evening toilets. 1t forms the foun-
dation of many dresses and is vailed
with white crepe isse, gauze or the
heavier Russian. Sometimes when the
latter is used it is of black or much
darker shade of red. The next most
popular shade is the old-fashioned
mauve, which is not only employed for
evening dresses but is much worn in
morning toilets of cashmere, surrah and
faille. These morning dresses have the
full-gashered sleeve to the elbow, with
the deep, tight-ftting cuff. -Milwaukee
Sentinel